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I watched Halloween by Rob Zombie clearly expecting that it would be better than the original, because it couldn’t go different for me. Though I didn’t expect it to be that good either.
I was wrong; the remake was actually enjoyable. Better than I expected. Better than the original. Worth watching and definitely not that much of said garbage.

[...] The last time I talked about Halloween 2, I was probably a bit overzealous in my opinion of Zombie, his filmmaking styles and his approach to the movie. Still though, I have to give the guy credit for building a rather large fan base on just a handful of movies. He at least seemed gung-ho and confident in his abilities as a director and was certain he would bring something to the table that hadn’t been done before in both the horror genre and the Halloween franchise. [...]

I was unaware that every horror movie that was made required a back story for it to be considered interesting. I can’t recall watching a single horror film where I asked myself “I wonder how the killer got to be this way. I sure wish they would devote a movie to just that.” And what are you talking about with plausibility? Since when was it a requirement for any movie to be plausible?

He’s not making a more “solidified story arc”, he’s making a shock horror film where demented violence extrudes from every scene.

What point am I dead wrong on? I’m talking about the 2nd film and you’re pointing out scenes from the 1st. Please clarify.

Don’t feed me that line about Zombie giving shoutouts to the original films. The man went on camera and said we will see something fresh and original and then he goes and does the same clichéd crap over and over. I’m not being overly critical here; I’m just holding him to his word. If he had not of said it, then I wouldn’t have brought it up.

The piece I wrote is showing the trailers and the behind-the-scenes clip and then commenting on them. Sorry if you thought it was “flame-throwing” but I assure you it was not. I have no preconceived notations about Zombie and am merely judge him based on the work he presents to me – the paying audience member whose money he wants.

Do you run a Bay anti-blog site or something? I didn’t even compare Zombie to other directors (other than Carpenter) and if I was to I wouldn’t use Michael Bay as the benchmark, Uwe Bolle maybe but not Bay. Zombie doesn’t spark debate, Michael Moore, Bill Mahr, Ben Stein, those guys spark debate.

BTW, I did recently say that Zombie would be a good choice to direct a scene in the upcoming Heavy Metal project. His style would fit nicely with some of his original music and art. Directors have to know what genre and style they work well in and stay there – example Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = Good, The Hulk = Not So Good.

Halloween, Friday the 13th, have been done to death literaly. Let’s move on, there’s nothing fresh with these stories.

Wow. You all broke that one big time. Zombie is just making what he thinks is best… and if the Akaad family likes it, then it gets made. T

From what I’ve read, Zombie is doing us a favor and giving us a back story, something interesting to take away from the films. No one here can say with a straight face that the original movies had any sort of back story.

Example: A kid, demasked and dumbfounded, with a knife he could probably barely hold right let alone wield? And the parents’ reaction to a child holding a bloddy knife is to just stand there? Oh boy, that’s chocked full of plausibility. Oh, and how Michael’s mask in the original and the sequel remained sparkling clean, and his overalls show no signs of blood, let alone the bullet holes from an emptied pistol from Loomis?

If you believe for one second that the original is more plausible and scarier, you’re really a very confused person, and I feel sad for you. I have been the largest fan of this franchise for I don’t know how long now and I can tell you that most people like the first movie because they re-hash how hot Jamie Lee used to be in her prime. They also relish in how campy the original is. Time has not been good to Michael.

I applaud Rob for trying to assemble a more solidified story arc. He’s making Michael a character that could actually exist in real life. And that is what horror is supposed to do, make you look over your shoulder.

I completely agree that House of 1000 corpses wasn’t very good. It was Rob’s first forray into big-screen horror, and while overall the movie was just a series of ramblings and mish-mash of Rob’s alt-shock artistic vision, it did create compelling characters that Rob carried over into The Devil’s Rejects, which was an INFINITELY better film, and a quite fun one to watch.

You cannot tell me that the beating death of that kid in the woods in the Halloween remake wasn’t one the most brutal and scariest things you have seen in modern horror. I actually said out loud “Oh my god, he’s killing that kid!”. I actually was momentarily psyched into believing the scene. And I have seen a lot of horror movies in the last 10 years. Rob’s remake of Halloween was a B in my book, as the long-haired Michael was just a little too “Zombie” for me, but once the mask was on, the Shape was incredibly well represented. So you are dead wrong on that point.

Also, most of these cliche shots “Medicine cabinet, etc” are usually Rob’s throwbacks and shout-outs to the original films. so I believe you are misinterpreting them.

I just think you’re really off base, and you seem to have a lot of prejudice and bias as far as what the filmmaker is doing, just because he’s a polarizing figure in film. I didn’t see a lot of analysis, just a lot of flame-throwing.

Wanna talk garbage? Let’s talk about Michael Bay’s reboots of TCM and Friday the 13th. Those are far more sacrilegious and inferior to their original counterparts. The original Friday the 13th is almost timeless, and Bay has simply put Jason in the ground for good with the unimaginative drek he put to film.

Zombie is presenting an alternative, Bay is just trotting out the same old dog and pony show with kids in shopping mall clothes… Bay insults me as a moviegoer, Zombie sparks debate. Far more valuable in my book.

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Oh and how bad did everyone think that Jason remake was? Man that thing sucked.

This is Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and all the Jason vs Freddy films…

Boring, headache inducing mindless stale garbage…
How people get off on seeing people die over and over again boggles my mind.

I liked “Devils Rejects” but these lame horror remakes of the 80′z are about as fresh as sour milk……..

Rob Zombie, get a real name and try something new. Your becoming a walking parody… What’s next “Ghosts of Mars?”

As for his movies, I think he’s a horrible movie maker. I saw Devil’s Rejects and was just grossed out by it. Not scared, grossed out. I didn’t even bother seeing his version of Halloween. If his idea of horror is just blood and gore, than I will stick with the original, thank you.